But over the years, I've learned not to believe too much in luck or accidents; T think everything happens for a reason.… — Syd Field Copy Share Image
The secret principle of martial arts is not vanquishing the attacker, but resolving to avoid an encounter before its occurrence. To become… — Gichin Funakoshi Copy Share Image
Businesses always have opportunities to improve service, product lines, manufacturing techniques, and the like, and obviously these opportunities should be seized. But… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“There is a LIGHT in this world. A healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometime lose sight… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It seems all worlds of music - rock, blues, R&B, soul, hip-hop and others - are able to point to impromptu get-togethers… — Ashley Kahn Copy Share Image
Characters begin as voices, then gain presence by being viewed in others' eyes. Characters define one another in dramatic contexts. It is… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Everyone knows how to love,because we are all born with that gift.Some people have a natural talent for it but the majority… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The majority of my UFO diet consists of reports describing suspected encounters. This is not surprising, as there are thousands of sightings… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
For each one of you, as for the apostles, the encounter with the divine Teacher who calls you friends may be the… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Journalism is an extraordinary and terrible privilege. Not by chance, if you are aware of it, does it consume you with a… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Just as the difference in height between males is no longer a realistic issue, now that lawsuits have been substituted for hand-to-hand… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Disgrace is a subtle, multi-layered story, as much concerned with politics as it is with the itch of male flesh. Coetzee's prose… — Paul Bailey Copy Share Image
Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this. Whether it is… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If I'm alone at home, I get increasingly restless, bothered by the idea that I'm missing some crucial encounter out there somewhere.… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Yet even the rich have their own kind of suffering, anxiety, doubt, and fear. So in many cases, wealthy people aren't happy!… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I know that the Bible is a special kind of book, but I find it as seductive as any other. If I… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
If you walk along the street you will encounter a number of scientific problems. Of these, about 80 per cent are insoluble,… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
The techniques of Aikido change constantly; every encounter is unique, and the appropriate response should emerge naturally. Today's techniques will be different… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
Chess holds deep wisdoms of the people. It is truly an image of life, the reflection of human fate that has shown… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer, the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
As we encounter new experiences with a mindful and wise attention, we discover that one of three things will happen to our… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Nothing of real worth can be obtained without courageous working. Man owes his growth chiefly to the active striving of the will,… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
There is a group of people who know very well where the weapons of automatic influence lie and employ them regularly and… — Robert Cialdini Copy Share Image
Most important of all, to be successful in life demands that a man make a personal commitment to excellence and to victory,… — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
The price that has to be paid for finding truly personal life is a very high one. It is a price in… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
Wherever I go, and whoever I encounter, I will bring them a gift. The gift may be a compliment, a flower, or… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Each one of us could describe his or her life as a sacred journey. You are journeying from the beginning to the… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
We read off the many signals that our companions' clothes transmit to us in every social encounter. In this way, clothing is… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
I had never been with a woman for longer than a night, and they had always been whores. And while throughout each… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
At one level, SXSW exemplifies serendipity, because whenever I come, I get these unexpected meetings with people I never knew existed, and… — John Hagel III Copy Share Image
At their best, religious and spiritual communities help us discover this pure and naked spiritual encounter. At their worst, they simply make… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
In our lives we will encounter many challenges, and tomorrow we face one together. How we accept the challenge and attack the… — Beth Anders Copy Share Image
If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I sorrowfully acknowledge that seven years ago… I was wickedly manipulated by treacherous former friends and colleagues who victimized me with the… — Jim Bakker Copy Share Image
But it has been my experience that the risks are faroutweighed by the rewards, chief of which is when you speak to… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Being able to live my life transparently does empower me to feel like I can be myself more. It's easier for me… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
